Posted on 04/03/2004 11:22:26 AM PST by MegaSilver
In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.
We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.
We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.
In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.
By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.
Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.
Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.
Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.
Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.
Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?
Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.
Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.
America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.
If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.
All construction must meet strict government standards for earthquake survival, so even the poorest of Costa Ricans lives in a solid house. Money does go a long way there. You could rent a large, modern American-style home for $350 per month. Your electricity bill would be about $22 per month. Your grocery bill might be $30 per week at supermarkets that have modern bar code scanners, just like here. It's just that your fresh pineapple is going to be about 50 cents, and that's with the weak dollar.
You can watch American television on DirecTV, and there is good cellphone coverage. Movie theatres show American films with SPANISH subtitles, which are a little bit of a nuisance since just about everybody speaks perfect english.
You'll find KFC, Burger Kings, and Taco Bells, and the people behind the counter speak english, unlike in America.
Costa Rica has exceptional health care and hospitals. Most of the doctors received their degrees in American medical schools. Health care is cheap. Many Americans have discovered that you can get cosmetic surgery performed in Costa Rica for a fraction of what it would cost here.
So, it's a little misleading to use per capita GDP to compare countries when the cost of living is so different between them.
One thing you may not have noticed. Illegal aliens caught in the US come from Mexico and other Central American countries. I've never heard of a Costa Rican illegal alien, and I'll bet no one here has.
Well, what do you expect when complacent American sheeple elect subversive socialists to "rule" over them? (vis. "Mad Maddie Albright" saying that they [the Clintoon administration] were not about even trying to maintain the sovereignty of the United States.)
QED Unfortunately, Pat's right on the money with this one.
Look up the definition of multicultural and get back to me.
This seems to have become the point for many of you here. If I did, would that make my statement untrue?
For the internet challenged . . .
Pleast note the internet location of the pix . . .
http://www.webcolombia.com/colombia/Raza_Mestizos_Zamboa_y_Mulatos_1.jpg
It is from COLOMBIA, "Raza" translates to "race" and I hope you can make the association of "Mestizos" to your question regarding "Mestizos."
I have no agenda beyond refusing to be a government sheep.
Yep, that's the country I want to emulate. I don't think many know that we are talking about culture here, not race or ethnicity. And, yes, there is such a thing as American culture.
Incidentally India cured it's biggest "diversity" problem by carving off a portion of their country. A solution that I would not be surprised to see our own nation resort to in the next few decades.
1. It's time for the census and other government places to stop classifying me by race. It's not their business. This should be a color blind society, and it can start there.
2. Are "Latinos" white? Some are. Some are American Indian. Some are black. Some are of mixed ancestry. What does it matter?
3. Pat is right about illegal immigration. Include all points of origin.
4. Those that come here need to learn English, and their kids need to learn English.
5. Azlan, LaRaza, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Orange Order, IRA types, Nazis, and Communists (and any such group I did not mention) need to get the hell out of my country.
Yes. American founding fathers wrote what they wrote because of access to European enlightenment tradition, not because of melanin content of their skin.
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